# List of Signet Society members

Following is a list of Signet Society members. Signet Society is a Harvard University final club that recognizes accomplishments in literature and the arts.

## Academia

* Emily Apter, professor chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University
* Derek Bok, Harvard University president
* James B. Conant, Harvard University president, scholar, chemist
* Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University president, chemist, mathematician
* Alexander Forbes, electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School
* Owen Gingerich, professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
* Peter J. Gomes, theologian and professor of Christian morals at Harvard Divinity School
* Mason Hammond, Classics scholar
* William James, philosopher, psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
* Marty Kaplan, professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios
* Thomas Kuhn, philosopher and college professor
* William Coolidge Lane
* Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University president, historian
* Charles Eliot Norton,social critic, and Harvard professor
* Neil Rudenstine, Harvard President
* Ilya Vidrin, academic research-practitioner
* Andrew Weil, founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine

## Art

* Paul Bartlett (painter)

## Business

* Agnes Chu, businesswoman and producer who oversaw original content at the launch of Disney+ in 2019 and president of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) including media brands such as GQ, The New Yorker and Vogue
* Mark Penn, chairman and chief executive officer of Stagwell, chief strategy officer of Microsoft Corporation, and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller
* John Train, investment advisor and author

## Education

* Herbert R. Kohl, educator who founded the open classroom movement

## Entertainment

* Matthew Bohrer, actor
* Andy Borowitz, writer, comedian, actor
* Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
* Amy Brenneman, actress
* Nicholas Britell, film composer and producer
* Ben Cosgrove, composer and multi-instrumentalist
* Tommy Lee Jones, actor
* Rashida Jones, actress
* Marty Kaplan, writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
* Douglas Kenney, co-founded of National Lampooncomedy and writer, produce, and actor in Animal House and Caddyshack
* John Lithgow, actor
* Donal Logue, actor
* James Murdoch, media owner
* Conan O'Brien, talk show host
* Natalie Portman, actress
* Whit Stillman, writer-director
* Tom Werner, producer, Red Sox co-owner
* Sabrina Wu, writer, comedian, and actor
* Alan "Scooter" Zackheim, reality show winner Beauty and the Geek

## Journalism

* Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times
* Adam Gopnik, writer for The New Yorker
* Hendrik Hertzberg, principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine, speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, and editor of The New Republic
* Walter Isaacson, chair and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time
* Douglas Kenney, co-founded of National Lampooncomedy and writer, produce, and actor in Animal House and Caddyshack
* Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The New York Times
* George Plimpton, sports journalist who helped found The Paris Review
* Frank Rich, essayist and liberal op-ed columnist with The New York Times
* Reihan Salam, conservative political commentator, president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, executive editor of National Review, a contributing editor at National Affairs, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic
* Alessandra Stanley, co-founder of Air Mail
* Andrew Sullivan, founder of the political blog The Daily Dish
* Richard Tofel, former president of ProPublica
* Fareed Zakaria, editor, author, commentator

## Literature

* James Agee, novelist, screenwriter, poet, author
* Conrad Aiken, author
* John Ashbery, poet, writer
* Robert Benchley, writer and actor
* John Berendt, writer
* Earl Derr Biggers, novelist and playwright
* T. S. Eliot, poet, author
* Robert Frost, poet
* Donald Hall, poet
* Seamus Heaney, poet
* Leslie Jamison, novelist and essayist
* Norman Mailer, writer
* Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer Prize winning author, maritime historian, and retired Rear Admiral
* George Plimpton, writer, journalist
* George Santayana, philosopher, poet, novelist
* Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, author, winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
* Wallace Stevens, poet
* Trumbull Stickney, poet
* John Updike, writer
* John Hall Wheelock, poet

## Politics

* Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Charles Joseph Bonaparte, United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Navy
* Hamilton Fish II, United States Congress
* Marty Kaplan, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios, and professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
* Jay Rockefeller, United States Senate
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
* James Roosevelt, U.S. House of Representatives, chairman of the California Democratic Party
* Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
* Chuck Schumer, United States Senate
* Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense, director of the Office of Management and Budget, California State Assembly, and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
* William Weld, Massachusetts Governor

## Other

* Lionel de Jersey Harvard, collateral descended of Harvard College founder

## Fictional members

* James "Toofer" Spurlock, fictional character on television show 30 Rock